Preoperative serum total cholesterol is a predictor of prognosis in patients with renal cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis of observational studies

ABSTRACT Purpose Several studies have demonstrated the strong correlation between the levels of preoperative serum total cholesterol (TC) and the survival of patients with surgically treated renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, this association remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis o...

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Main Authors: Bin Li, Deliang Huang, Huilan Zheng, Qiang Cai, Zhenlang Guo, Shusheng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2020-02-01
Series:International Brazilian Journal of Urology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-55382020000200158&tlng=en